Chelsea King Searchers 'Move Heaven and Earth' to Find Girl

Chelsea King, 17, of Poway, CA, disappeared after parking her BMW sedan outside Rancho Bernardo Community Center on Thursday afternoon. She is seen here in a photo from a group on Facebook called "Please Help Find Chelsea King."

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Police and scores of volunteers searched through chilly, rainy weather today for a 17-year-old San Diego straight-A student who disappeared Thursday after going out for a run.

The search for King began Thursday night and continued throughout Friday, Caldwell said.

Sheriff's deputies were joined by the FBI, the San Diego Police Department, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and the Del Mar Lifeguard Service. Caldwell said 90 law enforcement personnel were deployed in 15 search and rescue teams.

Helicopters, volunteers and officers on horseback, bloodhounds and officers on ATVs scoured an area roughly four miles square along the shores of Lake Hodges today, Caldwell said.

"It's been a truly great effort by everybody, all with the same goal of trying to return Chelsea to her family," Gore said. "It's obviously the unknown that's so stressful and so traumatic in something like this."

The searches will continue throughout the night and Sunday, the sheriff said.

"We wouldn't be here if there wasn't a chance of finding her," Gore said. "The more we search, the more we can eliminate."

The area where the teen disappeared, on the south shore of Lake Hodges, is rocky, uneven terrain, criss-crossed by trails through rough brush.

King's parents were given a private briefing this morning on what investigators know, Caldwell said, but she declined to give any information about what, if any, evidence had been found regarding what might have happened to the girl.

"We don't have specific indications, but we're not ruling anything out," she said.

There were local reports Friday that a girl's shoe might have been found near Lake Hodges, but Caldwell would neither confirm nor deny the reports.

"I'm not speculating about anything that may or may not have been found," she said.

On Friday, dozens of King's friends and fellow students at Poway High School joined the search, KGTV reported.